Kosmos 23 (Omega #2), a Soviet technology demonstrator testing three-axis attitude control, solar panels, and thermal systems that fed the Meteor weather-satellite program. Kosmos-2I from Kapustin Yar placed it in LEO on 13 December 1963.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 18th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1963, 14:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1963-050
- Launches in 1963
- 64th of 69
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